1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990006237060403321

Autore

Catellani, E.

Titolo

La propaganda della pace e la conferenza interparlamentare / E. Catellani

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Venezia : Tip. Ferrari, 1896

Disciplina

341.73

Locazione

FGBC

Collocazione

LEG.FIO.MIS.10 (9)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Non definito

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458790303321

Autore

Okihiro Gary Y. <1945->

Titolo

Cane fires [[electronic resource] ] : the anti-Japanese movement in Hawaii, 1865-1945 / / Gary Y. Okihiro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, c1991

ISBN

1-282-94004-X

9786612940040

1-4399-0704-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (356 p.)

Collana

Asian American history and culture series

Disciplina

996.9/004956

Soggetti

Japanese Americans - Hawaii - Social conditions

Japanese Americans - Hawaii - Economic conditions

Electronic books.

Hawaii Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Part I: Years of Migrant Labor, 1865-1909; 1. So Much Charity, So Little Democracy; 2. Hole Hole Bushi; 3. With the Force



of Wildfire; Part II: Years of Dependency, 1910-1940; 4. Cane Fires; 5. In the National Defense; 6. Race War; 7. Extinguishing the Dawn; Illustrations following page 160; 8. Dark Designs; Part III: World War II, 1941-1945; 9. Into the Cold Night Rain; 10. Bivouac Song; 11. In Morning Sunlight; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Outstanding Book in History and Social Science Award, Association for Asian American Studies, 1992""Okihiro's account is an important corrective to our understanding of the Japanese American Experience in World War II."" --The Hawaiian Journal of HistoryChallenging the prevailing view of Hawaii as a mythical ""racial paradise,"" Gary Okihiro presents this history of a systematic anti-Japanese movement in the islands from the time migrant workers were brought to the sugar cane fields until the end of World War II. He demonstrates that the racial discrimination against Japanese Americans that oc